| 单词 | lounge lizard |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslounge lizard lounge lizard n. slang (originally U.S.) a man who spends his time idling in fashionable society, esp. in search of a wealthy patroness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > flirt > male flirt > lounge lizard lounge lizard1918 lizard1935 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > fashionable flâneur1854 lounge lizard1918 saga boy1941 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male gallant1388 wamfler15.. rutter1506 younkera1522 fine gentleman1575 cavalier1589 whisker1595 jinglespur1604 bravery1616 brisk1621 chevalier1630 man about town1647 man of mode1676 man of distinction1699 sprag1707 sparky1756 blood1763 swell1786 Corinthian1819 galliard1828 mondain1833 toff1851 flâneur1854 Johnny1883 silver-tail1898 knut1911 lounge lizard1918 old buster1919 Hooray Henry1959 1918 Hatchet 4 Apr. 39/1 (caption) Nautical lounge lizards. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Apr. 4/4 The delicate, poetic cast of features, and the misplaced eyebrow adorning the nether lip of these lounge lizards, denizens of dansants and cabarets. 1923 Weekly Disp. 28 Jan. 3 In America he is so well known as to have got a special and picturesque nickname, the ‘Lounge Lizard’. 1925 G. P. Krapp Eng. Lang. in Amer. I. 117 Who will know a generation hence..that a crape-hanger is a reformer, or a lounge lizard one who suns himself eternally in good society. 1926 Punch 17 Nov. 534/1 Formal recognition of those firmly attached appendages of Society, the lounge-lizards. 1973 Times 29 Dec. 7/7 The £50 a week contract which..lets her keep her lounge lizard husband, Queckett, in the manner to which he is accustomed, lacks conviction. < as lemmas |
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